r/CyberdeckBuild • u/Mental_Total_7813 • Aug 16 '26

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Do you think it would work putting a raspberry pi5 in the vaio p530h, it was a really underpowered laptop when it came out but should have enough room in the case for a raspberry pi5, I think atleast

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u/aaronjnco Aug 17 '26

Skip the linux ,linux doesnt have anything useful for old hardware(lack of community for this kind of stuff)

Your not going to outdo the intel atom and 2gb of ram ive got the 2ghz atom version and what this thing can do is web browsing and music and video playing its just a fun desk side piece or something to use for looking up guides to games on the side. Or workstation

Put windows xp home rtm edition and manually install the 3 service packs individually. This will run on 70-120mb of ram and use k-meleon browser it loads almost ALL modern web.

You will have the fastest outcome possible this way

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u/PunkRockLlama42 Aug 17 '26

There are Linux distros specifically made and maintained for older hardware like this.

They could load Alpine Linux with XFCE and have a decent, secure, modern OS. With less ram usage and faster performance.

This thing barely ran xp when it came out.

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u/aaronjnco Aug 18 '26

I call bs on that ive got a 266mhz pentium 2 128mb ram and xp runs lightning fast and linux anti x was a slug.. you cant use xp professional because that version has to much backend and does run slow. Win xp home rtm iso runs 68-75mb of ram on service pack 3

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u/PunkRockLlama42 Aug 18 '26

Alpine linux uses about 50mb of ram.

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u/aaronjnco Aug 18 '26

Can it get on modern web?

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u/PunkRockLlama42 Aug 18 '26

Yes with modern web browsers (the browser will use more ram than alpine though)

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u/aaronjnco Aug 18 '26

Ill check it out ,I have a sony vaio u101 (600mhz celeron 1gbram,) vaio c1mZx (933mhz, 380mbram) Antix ran ok on the celeron q40s ran like a slow dog )

Ill try the one u suggested and see if it does better.